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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 15 Dec 00       Volume 17 : Issue 200

Today's Topics:

      (A) CD-R Removable Drive for Wall Street or other Powerbook
      [*] Okidoki Guard 2.0
      Disappearing Launcher Icons in OS 9.0.4
      Network printing to a pc/printer
      PCI card with USB to connect to printer, camera, card reader

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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:42:26 +1000
From: Michael Koren <mtkoren@myself.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: (A) CD-R Removable Drive for Wall Street or other Powerbook

In answer to Allan Hunter's inquiry as follows:

> Has anyone produced a CD recordable drive in the form of a PowerBook
> bay module for a WallStreet-era PowerBook?  On a day-to-day basis
> that would be more useful to me than the DVD-ROM module it shipped
> with.  (OK, a hybrid DVD-R / CD-R module that can record or play back
> either format would be cooler by quantum leaps, but I'm not holding
> out hopes for that).

There is an excellent US company doing PowerBook peripherals.

It is called MCE.  I've bought from them before - great service.

Go the the website 
http://store.powerbook1.com/mcexcarprome.html
to find what you are looking for.

regards
Michael Koren 

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Date: 15 Dec 2000
From: mariogt@entelchile.net
To: 
Subject: [*] Okidoki Guard 2.0


1) What is Okidoki Guard ?

Okidoki is a nice and simple program designed to password-protect your
Mac.

2) What is new in Okidoki Guard 2.0 ?

- ВВВ Now is FREEWARE !!!

- More Security level .Now Okidoki Guard Shutdown the computer if an
user fails 3 times in the password prompt  screen.

- More beautifull interface.

- Some bugs killed.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/okidoki-guard-20.hqx; 442 K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:11:49 -0800
From: Andrew Merenbach <owner@techiegroup.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Disappearing Launcher Icons in OS 9.0.4

I've had this problem for quite some time--the icons of applications that
function as control panels become generic document icons in the Launcher.
Anybody experiencing a similar problem?

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Andrew Merenbach

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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:07:17 -0600
From: "Chaz Larson [mailing lists]" <chaz_list@jeck.com>
To: George Gee <ggee@ccsf.cc.ca.us>, digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Network printing to a pc/printer

At 4:19 PM -0800 12/12/00, George Gee wrote:
>Can you tell me why i would have problems trying to print
>to a shared printer on a pc which is on the same subnet
>from a imac.

There's no built-in support in MacOS for printing to a shared printer 
on a Windows box.  Or, if you prefer, there's no built-in support in 
Windows for publishing shared printers for use by MacOS clients. ;)

If this is a PostScript printer, Thursby's Dave will allow you to 
print to it from your Mac.

<http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html>

>I can see other network printers which have a stand a lone
>network address; but i cannot see the one on the pc and cannot
>seem to find the pcs ethernet address.

Open a DOS box on the Windows machine and type "ipconfig".  The IP 
address of the windows box shall be revealed.

chazl

-- 
Someday Mother will die and I'll get the money.  Mom leans down and says,
"My sentiments exactly, you son of a bitch."
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:17:58 +0100
From: Pieter Stouten <stouten@shogi.net>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: PCI card with USB to connect to printer, camera, card reader

I intend to buy a PCI card with (at least) 2 USB ports for my G3/266. 
The card has to work with an Epson Stylus Photo 870 or 1270 printer 
and with a Kodak DC290 Zoom digital camera (which has USB built-in) 
and/or Delkin or Microtech card reader.

The local Mac store has the following listed (approximate prices in dollars):

HINP008 XLR8          Dual Port Usb Pci Card      67
HINP028 MacAlly       Mcally Pci To Usb Adapter   49
HINP029 Highlight     Pci card with 2 USB         36
HINP030 MacSense      Pci Usb Adapter             68
HINP039 BELKIN - USB  Usb 2 A Port Pci Bus Card   51
HINP078 ADS           ADS PCI card 2 USB ports    44

I am mostly concerned with compatibility and quality. Does anybody 
have any experience with the above cards? Will they work with the 
printer, camera, card reader? Any recommendations for the above or 
other cards?

Thanks very much,

Pieter

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